Gas lighting system



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A. LUNG'E'N.

GAS LIGHTING SYSTEM.

No. 416,635. Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ADAM LUNeEN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

GAS-LIGHTING SYSTEM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,635, dated December3, 1889.

Application filed February 12, 1889. Serial No. 299,595. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ADAM LUNGEN, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Gas- Lighting Systems, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention relates to a system for igniting gas at the burners byelectricity.

The invention is designed to render it as nearly certain as possiblethat every burner in a system, no matter how extensive, will be ignitedwhen the current is thrown onto the circuit.

To this end the invention consists in placing the burners in multipleare or multiple series, and locating a condenser in each cross branch oreach branch of the circuit containing a burner or burners, in the mannerhereinafter more particularly described, and pointed out in the claim.

Heretofore the ignition of gas by the electric spark leaping the breakbetween the electrodes at a number of burners was only accomplished bythoroughly insulating each burner to prevent the current returning tothe generator before passing over the series of breaks. The number ofburners which could be so lighted was limited to the length of spark,which necessarily varied more or less at each burner and depended.somewhat on the perfection of the insulation.

In my system a great number of burners may be operated and theinsulation at each burner may not. be so high as in the old systern.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 represents a diagrammatical view ofthe system; and Fig. 2, a similar view of the same general system, thecondensers being of a different construction.

a represents the generator, and a a the trnnk-lines of the circuit.

The branches are indicated by b b b, and the gas-burners or othertranslating devices by c c c. 'In each branch containing atranslatingdevice I locate a condenser 6. These condensers act in the usualmanner-that is to say, the generator charges them, when they discharge acurrent of higher tension across the branch and insure a spark in thebranch circuit. In this way I am not limited to a close adjustment ofthe electrodes at the burners, as the condensers of each branch willcharge and discharge themselves over their respective branches withoutinterference with the others.

It may be well to state that I prefer to use a Ruhmkorff coil to chargethe circuit, as by this means the charging and discharging take placerapidly and successively.

In Fig. 2 one side of the circuit connects with one large sheet e of thecondenser, while the other side of the condenser is made up of a numberof small sheets 6 e 6 each connected with the opposite side of thecircuit. This is a modified construction of condenser and manner ofconnecting to insure the simultaneous sparking at the burners.

Having described my invention, Iclaim- In a multiple-arc ormultiple-series system of electrical distribution for igniting gas atthe burners, the combination, with a burner or burners located in thecross-branches of the circuit, of a condenser located in each of saidbranches, for the purpose described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ADA-M LUNGEN.

lVitnesses: I

WM. A. ROSENBAUM, FRANK C. GEUEN.

